The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-04-17
mean business in the prosecution of Nc
Mahon's bondsmen.

mean Business in the prosecution of Nc
Mahon's bondsmen.
A letter written by Col. Edwin Stevens,
of Hoboken, in which the appointment of
Sine Kelly as Lay Judge was character
lied as eminehtly fitting and highly salts
factory in every respect was hawked about
among the Republican Senators, but did
| not bring about confirmation.
When President Cleveland was urged to
appoint ex- Governor Albeit on the Pacific
Railroad Investigating Committee he
shrugged his shoulders very significantly
and petulantly replied, ''Yes. know all
about that gentleman; he is no friend of
my Administration, and never will be-"
In allowing the bill restoring ex-Speaker
John Eagan to ci lzenship to become IA
law, Governor Green has departed from the
rule adhered to by his two predecessors,
namely, that the Legislature had no power
in the premises. but that such a restora-
ton was solely within the province of
the Court of Pardons.
And now Senator Mcpherson, in an
interview with "Worla" correspondent,
again looks gIoomily at the Democratic
chances of success in the Presidential cam
palgn next year, aud even doubts the abi-
| ity of the party to carry this State. After
being relieved of his fit of Indigestion he
will probably deny the interview and cuss
the interviewer.
Cavanagh will be defended by HOFFMAN,
Il Herbert and Allan McDermott Up to
within few days Ex-Governor Albeit had
not been retained in the case. The de-
| fence will be that the crine was committed
while under delusion or hall ucination
that amounted to insanity, and made him
not responsible for his acts.
A large number of prominent taxpayers
met at Meyers Hotel, Hoboken, last eve
ming, to take action on the Murphy defal-
cation. It was agreed to hold an indigna-
ton meeting next week, where committee
of fifteen citizens is to be appointed to
make q thorough Investigation of the
affairs at the City Hall, and to invoke the
aid Of the courts in its prosecution of the
same.
Van Hire, of Essex, the janitor of the
Essex County Court House, who served a
term in the State Prison for subornation of
perjury, will have charge of the hanging
of George Disque. He is a carpenter by
profession, and has built number of
gallows for various parts of the country.
He has oficiated at many executions,
! among them that of Kankswsky, Laem-
| mems, Oschwald, Ryan and Mrs. Meier
hotter.
Notwithstanding the fact that Mayor
Kerr had both Democratic and Republican
nominations, had all the local papers in his
support and the active cooperation of the
Hoboksn Land and Improvement Com
pany, the entire police force and fire de-
partment, many of whom were peddling
tickets for him all day, he only slipped
through with few votes, and that too
against an independent candidate who
lacked many element of popularity.
Everybody who is anybody will be at the
wedding Counsellor Samuel Hepburn Nc
Gill to Miss Julia Thayer, daughter of
Judge Thayer of Englewood, at the Windsor
Hotel, New York, next Wednesday even
ing The ceremony will be performed in
one of the great private reception rooms of
the hotel at z p. M, after which the recep-
ton will begin. Only few months ago
the fashionable world of New Jersey was
stirred to its depths by the marriage of the
elder Miss Thayer to the san of Ashbel
Green, nephew to our present. Governor
After their return from their wedding trip
MIR. and Mrs McGill will take up their
residence at Princeton, and the groom will
continue theapractice of law in this city.